Undergraduate Admissions

The last date for submission of admission processing fee and application forms for admission to first degree programs has been extended up to 15-08-2018

Postgraduate Admissions

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Research Intersts: Aim is to combine the knowledge of Agronomy and Microbiology and to fulfill the following interests; weed control by biocontrol methods, composting and biofertilizer, water and wastewater treatment, application of microbiology in Agriculture, human health and industry, biodegradation and bioremediation, microbial ecology, microbial taxonomy, use of biologically active compounds produced by microbes.

Research Intersts: Analysis has shown that government and donor priorities in investments are often at odds with the outcome at the village level. Any promising possibilities are closely linked to research on farmer practices, on-farm trials, farmer participation, and the collaboration of scientists who take feedback from farmers seriously. Rural Poultry can play an important role in poverty eradication, as witnessed by the investment choices made by many landless and poor people, in credit projects generally. In an alternative scenario, poor and landless people are enabled to compete on these animal product markets, through development projects. My research interest is to enhance the development of rural poultry in Pakistan.

Research Intersts: Hyper gene expression of bioactive peptides with potential insecticidal activity for the development of sustainable insect control programmes. Isolation and characterization of bioactive genes and proteins from insect parasitoids. EST sequence analysis through bioinformatics tools.

Research Intersts: My research interests incorporate the expansion of statistical methods for the examination of data that are qualitative or categorical, and statistical tactics in the social sciences. Also my main hypothetical concern is in understanding why we are capable to do statistics as well as we do on very high dimensional data sets without understanding much.

Position & Department: Lecturer, Institute of Home Sciences, Faculty of Food, Nutrition & Home Sciences

Research Intersts: The bond of clay with the human is very strong. My area of interest is ceramics & sculpture. There are two types of forming ceramics 1. Hand build, 2. On pothers wheel sculpture and relief is a form of visual Art and operates with three dimensional effects.

Research Intersts: The ways that plants coordinate and integrate numerous physical, chemical and biological processes to produce new biomass and maintain existing biomass, fascinates me. I want to combine the knowledge of Agronomy and meteorology to maximize crop yields. Finally I wish to understand how variation in atmospheric temperature, carbon dioxide and precipitation affect plant growth and maintenance metabolism. To pursue these interests my research focuses on mechanistic modeling of crop growth, development and yield. The models are framed within the context of biological and ecological hierarchies and explain the linkages between environmental constraints and plant functioning. A second approach I used to address my interests involves synthesis results of experimental studies on crop environment interactions. This includes collaboration with interdisciplinary research teams addressing high priority agricultural issues about effects of climate change on crop productivity. I want to build novel bridges between experimental research, in both field and laboratory, and process modeling for improving understanding of environmental and genetic constraints in agro-ecosystem. As a member of faculty, I look forward to exciting interaction with undergraduate and post graduate students.

Research Intersts: Software has now surpassed hardware as the key to the success of many computer based systems. Unfortunately, the track record at developing software is not particularly impressive.
Last few decades have been the proliferation of software applications ranging from small to large applications.
Many of these applications have required constant maintenance.
There are several major reasons for the failure of software projects including lack of a complete requirement specifications and lack of appropriate design/development methodology.
This involved correcting faults that had been detected, implementing new use requirements and modifying the software to run on new or upgraded platforms.
My current interests are focused to create/use new database technologies to modern hardware and large applications for the proper use of resources.

Research Intersts: Environmental stresses are major constraints to the productivity of crops throughout the world. It is therefore imperative that mechanisms and causes of the stress effects on plant growth and development may be determined systematically, and strategies may be adopted to overcome adverse effects of stresses in order to achieve maximum productivity from the salinity, high temperature and drought-hit areas. My current interests are focused on the expression of stress proteins and other stress related primary and secondary metabolites under water, salinity, heat and cadmium stresses, and finding strategies to fetch greater yields under such conditions. Among various crops, major emphasis is on wheat, barley, rice, sugarcane and maize.

Position & Department: Professor, Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture

Research Intersts: Sustainable production of crops is at risk due to insect pests and disease attack. Similarly, abiotic stresses like drought, heat and cold etc. significantly reduce crop yield. Especially, in the scenario of climate change, management of these stresses by engineering crop plants which may give good yield under stress environments is very important. My research efforts are focused on genetic tolerance of crop plants against biotic (insect pests etc) and abiotic stress using biotechnological tools.

Research Intersts: Field Survey of antibiotic treatment of Escherichia coli infection in poultry and evaluation of efficacy of enrofloxacin plus colistin in experimental colibacillosis. Therapeutic efficacy of an aluminium hydroxide adjuvanted Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus agalactiae bacterin-toxoid alone and in combination with antibiotics for the treatment of clinical and sub-clinical bubaline.

Research Intersts: My mind is to research on the development of such functional foods that can help to prevent and cure these disorders. My work is on Dietary fiber supplementation in the food product and further to use this product as a diet therapy against hypercholesterolemia while comparing it with the normal subjects. It will help to improve the health quality and ultimately a reduction in the medical issues and increased efficiency of the people.

Position & Department: Director General/Professor, National Institute of Food Science and Technology, Faculty of Food, Nutrition & Home Sciences

Research Intersts: Food science and technology is an ever-expanding profession, in processing, packaging, preservation, value addition, nutrition, and consumer food safety. Pakistan (5th largest milk-producing country) needs to be exploited in processing and production technology (cheese, butter, yoghurt, condensed milk, ghee, sweets) to compete in the World market utilizing effective resources. Opportunities for value-added products: Nutritional, Functional, infants formula for newly borne and Probiotic foods are the potential areas yet to be designed and roofed in Pakistan. To accomplish the needs of industrial technology in this regard is a fascinating challenge. Food microbiology is the basic underpinning for study in the field of food safety, bio-technology, bio-preservation and product development (starter cultures, fermented foods, etc.). Several research activities (identification, isolation, purification, preservation and control of bacteria) not only in dairy processing technology but also for other food groups require diligent attention. Hence, to work with the objectives stated herein is of great personal and professional interest, while simultaneously providing services for safe, qualitative and versatile food with respect better communications for science and humanity.

Research Intersts: Since the past eighteen years I have been engaged in the fields of plant breeding, genetics, molecular biology, and biotechnology. My career goals centre on tailoring crop varieties with better tolerance to the changing environment through breeding and genome engineering. In my earlier research at NIBGE and UC-Berkeley, I worked on the characterization of leaf curl disease and examined transgene stacking using site-specific recombinases in cotton. Before joining CABB, I also worked at the Department of Plant Breeding and genetics (UAF) where I focused on mapping genes for yield and water stress tolerance through association mapping. Currently, I am working as an Associate Professor (Tenured) at CABB in the area of cotton biotechnology with the aim to developing site-specific genome engineering technology for stacking multiple transgenes and recycling selectable marker genes. An 8.3 million rupees grant has been provided by the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan to support this activity. In addition to site-specific genome engineering, my Lab also interests in Plant Phenomics to bridge the genotype-phenotype gap for more efficient gene mapping. A 40 million rupees grant from ICT R&D Fund is currently in process.

Research Intersts: I am working on physiological aspects of seed development and enhancement. I have established a very dedicated working group on seed and stress physiology. We have developed a functional seed testing and physiology lab. We have established seed priming protocols for all major and many other crops. We are also working on induction of abiotic stress tolerance by seed priming and foliar application of synthetic and natural growth enhancer especially in wheat, rice and maize against salinity and drought. I have explored many plant extracts and Moringa oliefera discovered as ideal plant to use its extract as priming and foliar agent as growth enhancer. I am also working on introduction of new crops to increase the biodiversity to meet the challenges of food security and climate change. I have successfully introduced Chenopodium quinoa, a climate proof grain crop, linola, improved linseed and Camolina sativa, a potential drought tolerant oilseed.

Research Intersts: My research interests include studies on the biology, epidemiology and management of bacterial diseases of plant especially citrus canker, blackleg of potato and bacterial blight of rice. Furthermore I am interested in research on exploring the biochemical basis of resistance in plant against diseases

Research Intersts: Cardiovascular diseases are one of the major causes of human mortalities. Among the various cardiovascular diseases, coronary artery disease is mainly responsible for atherosclerosis and is major cause of human death toll. Maternal nutritional status during pregnancy influences health status of each and every organ of a new born, including cardiovascular system. These influences have been linked with incidence of cardiovascular diseases during later stages of life. Studies have shown that thicknesses of carotid and aortic intima and media can help predicting the risk of cardiovascular diseases. However, there is scarcity of literature about if maternal nutrition effects the thickness of tunica intima and media of coronary vessels or not. My area of interest encompasses influence of maternal under-nutrition upon coronary vasculature during different stages of pregnancy.

Position & Department: Lecturer, Institute of Home Sciences, Faculty of Food, Nutrition & Home Sciences

Research Intersts: Nutraceuticals are the natural bioactive, chemical compounds that have heath promoting, disease preventing or medicinal properties. Nutraceutcal and functional foods are used to combat the nutritional disorders. Efficacy study is a way to check the effectiveness of certain nutrient or drug. Efficacy can be defined as the performance of an intervention under ideal and controlled circumstances. Efficacy means that the tested dose of the drug or specific nutrient is effective at ameliorating the treated condition. A typical goal of a safety and efficacy (SE) study is to estimate certain clinical end points with a specified amount of precision.

Research Intersts: Plant growth under stress conditions with special reference to evaluating the role of rhizobacteria for reducing the negative impact of stress. Studying the behavior of bacterial strains in natural environment and their interactions with the other microbial population in the soil. Also making the use of molecular techniques to study the exact mechanisms of growth promotion and quantifying the bacterial population density necessary for plant growth under stress conditions. Moreover combined application of bacteria with other microbial population like fungi for enhancing growth.

Research Intersts: Rural poverty and development is a major issue in Pakistan. There is a need of working on the issue from different dimensions. Policies, Programmes, determinants, women deprivation, gender roles, efforts of rural development by private sector organizations and also approaches to rural development. Peoples participation issues. Consequences of the development efforts, Major hurdles in the way of reducing poverty. Strategies for rural development. Difference between welfare and reducing poverty. With emphasis on community development. Development without dependence leading towards sustainable development.

Research Intersts: The focused interest areas are women empowerment in context of their socio-economic and health aspects, Migration and its implications, urbanization, rural development and its linkages with sustainable agriculture production.

Research Intersts: My area of interest is psychology, with particular emphasis upon child, environmental, abnormal, educational, developmental; and counseling and career counseling psychology; primarily focusing on one’s interests, abilities, strengths and hobbies regarding the development of career.

Research Intersts: Study of abiotic stresses as major constraint in agricultural productivity. Screening of genotypes/cultivars of field crops for drought tolerance and enhancing/improvement of drought tolerance in field crops by application of abscisic acid and compatible solutes like glycinebetaine, proline, salycilic acid. Among the field crops my major emphasis is on oil seed and cereal crops.

Research Intersts: To analyze drought and heat tolerance conferred by fungal and viral endophytes in commercial crops; and to assess the losses caused by plant viruses, epidemiological studies, role of insects in virus transmission and integrated plant viral disease management.

Research Intersts: My areas of interest are basically communication skills, British Literature, American Literature, and Literature around the World, Existential Hermeneutics and Phenomenology, while my current research interests are Post-Colonial in nature with primary focus upon the post-colonial study of literary and non-literary text that expose the subtle phenomenon of educational neocolonialism and the construction of oppressive ideology.

Research Intersts: Methods of nutritional assessment and nutrition education and counseling to promote behavior change about dietary patterns. Study of the health effects of Nutritional disorders, determination of Food composition, Functional Foods benefits and conduct community based Dietary Surveys to diagnose the nutritional deficiency in children and exercise intervention to promote healthy diets.

Position & Department: Lecturer, Institute of Home Sciences, Faculty of Food, Nutrition & Home Sciences

Research Intersts: Lot of natural fibers are being used in making textile products as cotton, just etc. however, still there are such natural fibers that need utmost attention of researchers for being having great potential of fulfilling needs of modern world both in terms of comfort and versatility. Sisal fiber is the big example of such neglected natural fiber and it has great potential of generating powerful revenue for the country. The area of my research is to soften the sisal fiber before spinning. Such fibers will be helpful in home textile industry that can be established women entrepreneurship.

Research Intersts: My research centers on molecular mycology of devastating fungal plant pathogens. Much of my research focuses on plant pathogen variation as measured by phenotypic and genotypic analyses. I am interested in detection and diagnoses of emerging and endemic plant diseases. I am also interested in viral disease of crop plants, especially Potato Leaf Roll virus, Potato Virus X and Y.

Research Intersts: 1.Gross Anatomical studies of different animals. Biometry, age and sex related changes.
2.Different Reproductive physiological changes in relation to treatment with different hormones.
3.Oxidant and antioxidant status of different animal species.

Position & Department: Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Linguistics, Faculty of Sciences

Research Intersts: “Muslim Educational Movements in British Rule” Through this Research, we can acquire knowledge about the background, aims & objectives, courses, teaching methodology, methods of evaluation, the recourses of income and the problems of different educational movements in British India. In this way, we gain such knowledge that we can summit recommendations not only for the educational system of Pakistan but also for the Muslim ummah.

Research Intersts: Anatomy is the fundamental and basic unit of medical science. My research area is related to macroscopic as well as microscopic studies of birds and animals. The mammary glands are very important part of large animals in respect to milk production, I also worked on the macroscopic and microscopic anatomy of mammary glands and their secretions i.e., physiochemical and compositional analysis of milk from buffalo and cow.

Research Intersts: My current research is focused on better understanding of the physiological limitations to productivity of field crops (wheat, rice corn, cotton and sunflower) under various abiotic stresses. One goal of my research is to identify the morphological/physiological and biochemical characteristics that can impart enhanced tolerance of abiotic stresses such as drought, salinity and excessive heat. Related activities include screening of available germplasm for variability in these traits, development of screening methodologies and technologies development for productivity enhancement under stress conditions.

Research Intersts: The research interests are mainly on the epidemiology and control of parasitic diseases of animals in Pakistan. This includes determination of factors contributing to parasitic diseases in local conditions, screening of different existing compounds and others particularly of plant origin for their efficacy as antiparasitics. The current research focus is on the documentation of traditional veterinary practices (ethnopharmacology) and their scientific validation using standard scientific procedures. Collaborations are also underway for working on development of anti-tick vaccine.

Research Intersts: 1-Allelopathic effect of weeds and crops on crop plants.
2-To study weed seed bank.
3-Use of agro-chemicals and their effect on plant and soil.
4-Weed management in crops.
5-Studies into biology and ecology of weed.
5-Integrated weed control.

Research Intersts: i. Theoretical Foundation of Software Engineering.
ii. Modeling and Enactment of Software Traditional and Agile Processes.
iii. Software Architecture for Service oriented and cloud based provisioning.
iv. State-of-the-art and State-of-the Practice in Software Architecture.
v. Evolution of requirements over time, product families and variability.

Research Intersts: Disease Diagnostics/Immunoprophylaxis/Food Safety/Microbiological Quality Assurance/One Health Program.
Accomplished research task on state of the art technology on the development of serodiagnostic tests including IHA, SRH, ELISA, CCIE and CFT.
Development of immunoprophylaxis modules on Mycoplasma capri, Pasteurella multocida, E.coli, Salmonella, Streptococcus equi, Staphylococcus aureus etc
Developed STAF test for the determination of antibiotic residues in Animal Food
Reported new strains of Mycoplasma, NDV, Pasteurella to NCBI, USA
Recently working on the Food pathogens and focusing on the Food security and food safety issues. Climate Change and emerging infections.

Research Intersts: Water is the most important vital input for crop productivity. The efficient use of it is very important. There are number of ways to increase the water use efficiency. The advanced techniques of efficient use of water and modeling approach can guide the user to apply optimum water for the crop. This will ensure water use efficiency without yield reduction. It can also simulate crop water productivity under changing climatic scenarios.

Position & Department: Chairman/Professor, Department of Zoology, Wildlife and Fisheries, Faculty of Sciences

Research Intersts: Occurrence of vertebrate pests throughout the cultivations in Pakistan prove to be a major predicament in inhibiting the crop production and quality, not only affecting farmers, but also the
national economy. It is, therefore, pivotal to manage their populations sustainably, preferably with the use of repellents. My present focus remains on their effective management strategies using reflecting ribbons, mirror reflectors, distress sound players and hawk eye rotators. In future, research is also likely to be conducted on avian dispersal and parentage relatedness using molecular markers, avian teratogenics and bioaccumulation of heavy metals among birds

Position & Department: Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Sciences

Research Intersts: Prof. Amer Jamil is group leader of Molecular Biochemistry group in the Department of Biochemistry, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan. In fact he established the research group in the University with advanced research facilities from research grants from various national and international funding agencies such as HEC, IFPRI, USAID, IFS etc. So far he has produced 17 PhD scholars, 49 M.Phil. and 75 M.Sc. students under his supervision.
Specialization of Prof. Jamil is Molecular Biology with research emphasis on gene expression. His research group has isolated some peptides with high bioactivities that have therapeutic potential. He has also exploited his expertise in molecular biology towards DNA barcoding of medicinal plants. His group has barcoded more than 150 medicinal plants of Cholistan desert and Swat valley. He also organized awareness workshops in both of these regions for community.
Prof. Jamil has contributed many publications to the journals of international repute. To create awareness about the subject in the country, Prof. Jamil has published many articles in the national newspapers.
Prof. Jamil has attended many national and international conferences and presented papers. He himself has organized many seminars, lectures and scientific meetings. He has organized two international conferences as Organizing Secretary, and an and international symposium as Chief Organizer with more than 1000 participants from all over Pakistan and abroad in each activity. Prof. Jamil also has organized several workshops and hands-on trainings in the area of Molecular Biology.
Prof. Jamil has done tremendous contribution towards community service. He has established an entrepreneur with multi-dimensions under the name Molecular Care (www.molcare.org). It is offering diagnostic services in molecular biology and special biochemistry meeting international quality standards under biosafety level-2 environment. It is also offering hands-on trainings, bioinformatics services, research solutions for researchers and students especially from the newly emerging universities, etc.
In recognition of his research work, Prof. Jamil was awarded Young Scientist Fellowship by the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in the 18th International Congress of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, U.K., from amongst the research scholars around the world. Owing to his contributions in the field of biological sciences, Prof. Jamil was awarded TWAS (Third World Academy of Sciences) prize for Young Scientists in the South in the field of Biology. He is included in the list of leading scientists of Pakistan, published by the Pakistan Council for Science and Technology. He has also earned research productivity award several times from the Government of Pakistan. He earned PAS Gold Medal in the subject of Biochemistry by the Pakistan Academy of Sciences. He represented Pakistan in general assembly of a very august forum IUBMB held in Brazil.

Position & Department: Chairman/Professor, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences

Research Intersts: # Development and standardization of physical, chemical, and biological techniques for the identification of gamma irradiated foods as well as the evaluation of quality characteristics of irradiated foods.
# Degradation of toxic chemicals by radiation treatment present in the environment and to make them environmental friendly.
# Synthesis and characterization of the polyurethane elastomers.
# Study the effect of radiation treatment on extraction and dying of fabrics using natural and synthetic dyes.
# synthesis and applications of nano-photo-active-materials for catalytic and solar cell applications.

Position & Department: Professor, National Institute of Food Science and Technology, Faculty of Food, Nutrition & Home Sciences

Research Intersts: Pakistan has the potential to increase the milk production from cow, buffalo, sheep, goat and camel. Milk from each dairy animal has particular nutritional importance. With the increase in the milk production, its transformation into product becomes compulsory. Goat milk has more digestibility and suitable for the children and can be transformed into goat milk type chesses. Milk is the suitable medium for the growth of friendly bacteria because of the prebiotic components it contains. Many bioactive peptides are produced during fermentation which promotes the health of consumers. Among the probiotic products, a small work has been conducted on yoghurt, acidophilus milk and cheese. Main area of interest is to work on the comparative study of milk from different species and its transformation into different products: yoghurt, cheese, pasteurized and UHT milk, powders and whey products. The factors which can influence the yield, production and quality of these products during storage have to be discovered in Pakistan.

Research Intersts: Root knot nematodes are the major threat to the vegetable crops and causing yield losses. So management of root knot nematode is important. Among the many management strategies major emphasis is on biological management of root knot nematode through Pasteuria penetrans and entomopathogenic nematodes.

Position & Department: Chairman/Lecturer, Department of Humanities and Linguistics, Faculty of Sciences

Research Intersts: Constitutional development in Pakistan: Constitution plays key role in the development of country. It reflects the political philosophy of a nation. So far Pakistani nation is experience in third constitution will lot of amendments. We are not yet clear about the role and place of Islam in the constitution. We are still confused about the federation or confederation. To what extant the powers should be transfer to the provinces? Unprecedented constitutional history of Pakistan is very unique and complexed as well.

Position & Department: Lecturer, Department of Rural Sociology , Faculty of Social Sciences

Research Intersts: The focus of my research interest is in the environmental sociology to study different environmental problems like; Climate change, Urbanization, domestic/solid waste disposal, patterns of land use changes, toxic chemicals, soil loss, forest cover etc. in the rural areas. I am interested to study their socio economic impacts, gender roles to control these problems and their relationship with agriculture. I am also interested in the application of GIS for understanding the socio-economic and environmental conditions in the rural areas.

Position & Department: Assistant Professor, National Institute of Food Science and Technology, Faculty of Food, Nutrition & Home Sciences

Research Intersts: Food product development and improvement with the application of Food Biotechnology is the main area of entrust. However functional foods, food safety, processing of plant materials and Nutrition are also under focus. Soy products possess significant nutritional potential to meet the nutritional deficiencies of Pakistani population; therefore, the development of products with modified flavor to meet the requirements of this community will help the popularization of these products in Pakistan.

Research Intersts: Department of Fibre and Textile Technology is the sole depart all over the country and offering Master level degree program in textile fibre sciences, which covers the entire textile sector in particularly in spinning, weaving, knitting, dyeing and applications of advanced techniques on synthetic fibre technology. My current area of interests are focused on applications of modern techniques applied on Natural as well as Synthetic Fibres and their end products.

Research Intersts: Mushrooms are rice source of proteins and proteins are the part of nutrients which are very important of growth of body because it play very vital role to build up the damage body parts for its repairement. Malnutrition is a great problem in developing countries like Pakistan. Its economy is mainly dependent on agriculture. My current focus is to provide sufficient mushroom food to people and to alleviate poverty from our country as edible fungi are natural recycler which converts lignocelluloses wastes into protein rich health food.